This time last year the 19-year-old was part of an MK Dons side knocked out of the FA Cup by Chesterfield.

Now he's already made an England debut - and scored - and is looking more and more stitched on to be part of Roy Hodgson's Euro 2016 squad after brilliantly tucking away his third Premier League goal in front of the England manager at West Brom.

It all has echoes of the sort of meteoric rise made by Kane when he became a Spurs scoring sensation last year and then forced his way into the international reckoning.

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Dele Alli

“Playing for England and scoring for England at Wembley is kind of similar to what I did last year”

Harry Kane

And the striker reckons he knows just how Alli is feeling as his career takes off like a rocket.

He said: "Dele is probably going through a whirlwind and everything is happening so quickly - he probably hasn't had a chance to kind of sit back and realise what he has done.

"Playing for England and scoring for England at Wembley is kind of similar to what I did last year.

"I am sure he will keep his feet on the floor because there is a long way to go this season and he wants to keep getting better. I will keep telling him that too, of course.

"He's come in and done fantastic for us, but there is still a long way to go and he has to keep working hard and make sure he doesn't get ahead of himself."

Alli took his goal brilliantly, waiting an age for Toby Alderweireld's ball to drop for him before striking it first time through the legs of Boaz Myhill.

"I just swung at it, telling myself I had to keep it down," was his modest description of a quality finish.

But it wasn't just that which will have impressed Hodgson, it was all the clever flicks and movement that opened up Albion's defence during an opening spell that Spurs failed to make the most of.

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GOAL: James McClean

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GAFFER: Mauricio Pochettino

"That is one of his qualities," said boss Mauricio Pochettino. "He is very confident in himself, very mature for somebody who is just 19 years of age.

"He has unbelievable potential. He is very young but in every game he has shown his quality. He is 19 but for me if you are 19, 18, 17 or 30, it is the same. It is not about age it is about performance and desire and hunger."

Sadly on the day for Spurs, Albion proved that 30 somethings can also have hunger as, led by Gareth McAuley who was celebrating his 36th birthday, they scrapped it out to earn a point.

And their equaliser, with Darren Fletcher rounding off a flowing move with a pinpoint cross for James McClean to head home, showed they can also play a bit when they want to.

There were even signs that a sceptical home crowd, who haven't liked some of the more pragmatic performances, are being won over as they chanted the name of Tony Pulis for the first time.

"They cheered us off," said assistant Dave Kemp, standing in for media duties because Pulis was suffering from flu. "We scored a great goal, had other chances, shots, crosses, there was lots of action.

"So people think, 'Perhaps it's not as bad as we were led to believe - I'm actually quite enjoying this!'."